A review by abbeyhar103
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S.C. Gwynne

4.0

A fascinating history of the gradual expansion of whites into Texas and the depletion of the Comanche tribe. Really help put things about the era in context. It can be hard in the modern era to picture how vast the prairie seemed, or how tribes like the Comanches managed to evade whites for so many decades, especially in the time period of guns, trains and other technology.

Two things: as other reviewers have mentioned, the book certainly has a white perspective, occasionally bordering on racism. Secondly, the overarching timeline and connection of the story lines could occasionally be hard to follow, but that second was just minor.